Dress woes like whoa
This is so freaking ridiculous that I just had to get it down. OK, so, dressy thing tomorrow needs dress. But I am trying like mad to avoid shopping in person because I hate clothes shopping.
I measured myself and bought a dress online. I didn't expect there to be any issues, as before being sick when I measured myself and shopped based on these measurements, I had no issues. So I get the dress, and I let it sit for a week or so because I have California-trip- and broken-refrigerator-related issues on the brain.
Finally, all that is worked out and over, and I finally get around to trying on the dress. It's kind of awful. Like, it's lovely from the waist down, but up top, it's got way more space than I have filling. I'm convinced I gained my sick weight back in my stomach and butt and my boobs stayed shrunk.
So, issue. I go to torrid.com because they're good for having the kind of dress that the occasion requires, and I do find a dress that I like reasonably well and I order it, but I somehow manage to do so about half an hour after the Cyber Monday sale, so it's $14 more expensive than it needed to be. Fine. I shell out for 2-3 day shipping. Fine. Whatever.
I go online later to see if it's shipped because they say it'll ship same day if you order before 11:00 PST, and the first thing I see is a dress I like better. Also, this being about ten hours later, the store is having a sale on dresses, so dresses are cheap again. So I order this other dress and again shell out for quick shipping with the intent of returning the first one.
A couple of days later, I notice some phantom orders on my account, and I email about it, but I'm not that worried because there's nothing weird on my bank account.
Then I get an email today that says that PayPal placed 4 orders in one day (the charges showed up today, btw), and the customer service rep -- and I realize she was trying to be helpful -- had three of them sent back. But only two are duplicate orders. One of those was a real order that I really intended to wear tomorrow.
So I call to see if they can call FedEx back and have them rereroute the package. They call them. FedEx says they'll try to call the driver, but it will likely arrive on Monday, two days after I intended to wear it.
How effing ridiculous is that? Bright side -- if I can make it in and out of one of the busiest malls in the metroplex before the thing tomorrow, I might be able to exchange the other dress if I don't like it and get the dress I want from the Torrid store because they do have my size in stock right now, and then return the superfluous mail order one when I go back to said mall in a couple of weeks to get my hair done. Also, they refunded the money I paid for shipping because the CSR got overzealous and ended up being the opposite of helpful.
I measured myself and bought a dress online. I didn't expect there to be any issues, as before being sick when I measured myself and shopped based on these measurements, I had no issues. So I get the dress, and I let it sit for a week or so because I have California-trip- and broken-refrigerator-related issues on the brain.
Finally, all that is worked out and over, and I finally get around to trying on the dress. It's kind of awful. Like, it's lovely from the waist down, but up top, it's got way more space than I have filling. I'm convinced I gained my sick weight back in my stomach and butt and my boobs stayed shrunk.
So, issue. I go to torrid.com because they're good for having the kind of dress that the occasion requires, and I do find a dress that I like reasonably well and I order it, but I somehow manage to do so about half an hour after the Cyber Monday sale, so it's $14 more expensive than it needed to be. Fine. I shell out for 2-3 day shipping. Fine. Whatever.
I go online later to see if it's shipped because they say it'll ship same day if you order before 11:00 PST, and the first thing I see is a dress I like better. Also, this being about ten hours later, the store is having a sale on dresses, so dresses are cheap again. So I order this other dress and again shell out for quick shipping with the intent of returning the first one.
A couple of days later, I notice some phantom orders on my account, and I email about it, but I'm not that worried because there's nothing weird on my bank account.
Then I get an email today that says that PayPal placed 4 orders in one day (the charges showed up today, btw), and the customer service rep -- and I realize she was trying to be helpful -- had three of them sent back. But only two are duplicate orders. One of those was a real order that I really intended to wear tomorrow.
So I call to see if they can call FedEx back and have them rereroute the package. They call them. FedEx says they'll try to call the driver, but it will likely arrive on Monday, two days after I intended to wear it.
How effing ridiculous is that? Bright side -- if I can make it in and out of one of the busiest malls in the metroplex before the thing tomorrow, I might be able to exchange the other dress if I don't like it and get the dress I want from the Torrid store because they do have my size in stock right now, and then return the superfluous mail order one when I go back to said mall in a couple of weeks to get my hair done. Also, they refunded the money I paid for shipping because the CSR got overzealous and ended up being the opposite of helpful.